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A077776
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Palindromic wing primes (a.k.a. near-repdigit palindromes) of the form (10^a(n)-1)-8*10^[ a(n)/2 ].
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OFFSET
| 1,1
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COMMENTS
| Prime versus probable prime status and proofs are given in the author's table.
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REFERENCES
| C. Caldwell and H. Dubner, "Journal of Recreational Mathematics", Volume 28, No. 1, 1996-97, pp. 1-9.
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LINKS
| Patrick De Geest, World!Of Numbers, Palindromic Wing Primes (PWP's)
Makoto Kamada, Prime numbers of the form 99...99199...99
Index entries for primes involving repunits.
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FORMULA
| a(n) = 2*A183184(n)+1.
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EXAMPLE
| a(n)=27 -> (10^27-1)-8*10^13 = 999999999999919999999999999.
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MATHEMATICA
| Do[ If[ PrimeQ[10^n - 8*10^Floor[n/2] - 1], Print[n]], {n, 3, 1000, 2}] (from Robert G. Wilson v (rgwv(at)rgwv.com), Dec 16 2005)
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CROSSREFS
| Cf. A004023, A077775-A077798, A107123-A107127, A107648, A107649, A115073, A183174-A183187.
Sequence in context: A147157 A146826 A059400 * A113836 A036571 A003060
Adjacent sequences: A077773 A077774 A077775 * A077777 A077778 A077779
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KEYWORD
| more,nonn,base
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AUTHOR
| Patrick De Geest (pdg(AT)worldofnumbers.com), Nov 16 2002.
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